From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:18:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that SSH runs in non-interactive mode
Message-ID: <1216491512.3911.9.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com>
In-Reply-To: <1216490252.10694.58.camel@koto.keithp.com>

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:57 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 19:06 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> >  By removing the DISPLAY env variable before forking, SSH
> > can thus be forced into non-interactive mode, without any obvious
> > ill effects.
> 
> This will keep ssh-askpass from using any X-based password input
> program.

Ah, right. Would it be OK to add the `-x' flag to ssh instead? I imagine
that that might make git less portable to SSH implementations other than
OpenSSH, but I don't know if that is considered a problem.

Fredrik Tolf